Screen Sharing and Right Clicking
When Screen Sharing to a Windows PC, has anyone managed to right click in Windows without using a two button mouse?
I've tried several key combination such as Shift-F10 but that evokes Expose and I'm not willing to change the default keyboard shortcut for Expose.
Thank you I have looked for days for how to do this. I used ctrl-shift then F10 (No fn) I wonder if there is a way to make a shortcut key to do this with one available fkey?
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Screen Sharing and Drive Sharing
Hey all!
I've got a Mac Mini that I am using to share files. I have an external drive attached via FireWire. The SMB and AFP shares only show up for the EXTERNAL drive when someone is logged in. Is this the expected behavior? Does anyone else have this happen?
This isn't all! I've noticed that when I use Screen Sharing and click "Return to Login" from the upper right corner, that I loose my Screen Sharing connection AND AM UNABLE TO CONNECT AGAIN. I've been able to reproduce this behavior on my Mini, MB, and MBP. Anyone else experience this?
Thanks in advance!
JasonThanks for the ideas! I kinda figured drive sharing wouldn't work from the login screen...seems kinda bogus though, but I guess if I want that, then I'd have to get OS X Server.
As for Screen Sharing, I disagree. When I connect to a Mac via Screen Sharing from the login screen, it lets me choose a logon and login. When I choose to go back to the login screen...the screen freezes. When I hook back up to the Mini from the console, the screen is frozen on a blue screen. No mouse, no keyboard. I believe it worked under a previous version of OS X 10.5...so I'm not sure if 10.5.4 messed it up...
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My HP pavilion G6 notebook PC the touch pad works however not left and right click pads
Hi all, new here so go easy with me ) I have a new HP pavilion G6 notebook PC, the touch pad works however not the left and right click buttons? Checked in control panel and can not find a way of enabling them. Also unable to scroll down a file in the window without using the actual scroll down bar on the right of the screen...any solutions please?
Hi Sy,
First, download the latest Synaptics driver installer on the link below and save it to your Downloads folder.
http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp53501-54000/sp53851.exe
Next, open windows Control Panel, open Programs and Features, right click the entry 'Synaptics Pointing Device Driver' and select Uninstall.
When this has completed, restart the notebook.
When windows has fully reloaded, open your Downloads folder, right click the Synaptics installer and select 'Run as Administrator' to start the installation. When this has completed, restart the notebook again.
Now follow the directions under the sub-heading 'Adjust horizontal and vertical scrolling' in the document on the link below to configure the scroll options as you require.
Configuring The ClickPad.
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When I try to right click now instead of getting the menu it goes into a new tab showing recent searches.I have to go back and right click again to get the menu and do what I wanted in the first place.Is there a way to fix this.This is really irritating.I like firefox but I'm ready to go back to Chrome. Thanks for any help.
You're right-clicking a link? I can't think of any setting that opens a blank tab when you right-click in a page. It's also strange that it would occur on the first click but not on the second click.
Does this affect all sites?
Are you expecting Firefox's context menu or the site's context menu?
One thing that comes to mind is overriding the site's own right-click handler by disabling scripts from capturing the right click. This is set under
orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Options > Content
To the right of "Enable JavaScript" is a button to access "Advanced" options. If it's checked, uncheck the box for "Disable or replace context menus". -
How do I delete a song from my Itunes music library? I follow the instructions and right click on the song and then select "delete" as specified and my info claims at that point it will ask if I want to send this song to my trash bin, but, instead, when I try to delete the song, I get another window asking "are you sure you want to hide this song in iCloud? I don't even know what iCloud is?!?!? I don't want iCloud and just want to get rid of old songs!!! HELP ME!!!
Short answer:
Click Hide Song(s), it is what you wanted to do...
Long answer:
iTunes in the Cloud is a feature of your iTunes store account that allows you to redownload or stream your past purchases. When you delete a purchased track that is downloaded to your computer (like the first one shown here) you are asked if you also want to hide the song from iCloud. This would remove it from the computer and also stop it showing up with the iCloud symbol as the other tracks from that album (which are not downloaded) do.
If a track shows with the cloud symbol you can play (stream) it by double-clicking the title, or click the cloud symbol to download a local copy to your library. If you try to delete one of these tracks you get a slightly different message confirming that you want to hide the track. Clicking hide will remove the listing from the library and any other device that shows your past purchases.
Should you want to retrieve any item hidden in this way at a later date use Store > View My Account > iTunes in the Cloud > Hidden Purchases > Manage.
To hide all your previous purchases that are not downloaded to your computer use Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases.
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Hi,
I have 10.9.4. I had remote management switched on and it was working fine.
I installed ARD 3.7 and started it up fine and it was running fine allowing me to do all what I needed.
I also need to remote to this Mac and so set the preference in ARD to allow control whilst the app was running. Thats when it went pear shaped.
It suddenly stopped allowing remote access to the machine.
I now have to be physically at the unit. I have removed ARD and all the files it has added and switched off all screen sharing and Remote Management in Sys Pref. Restarted and switched on Remote Management again.
I can still not access the machine remotely (i.e. screen sharing).
When trying to use screen sharing on the Mac itself to remote onto another machine I get the following in Console.
20/08/2014 15:08:23.459 Screen Sharing[1422]: unable to get server port
20/08/2014 15:08:23.459 Screen Sharing[1422]: *** -[__NSSetM addObject:]: object cannot be nil
20/08/2014 15:08:23.537 Screen Sharing[1422]: (
0 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93cd525c __exceptionPreprocess + 172
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff94276e75 objc_exception_throw + 43
2 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93bf4966 -[__NSSetM addObject:] + 790
3 ScreenSharing 0x00007fff91f3a0e2 -[SSInputEventSourceCoordinator addSource:] + 69
4 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93ca3e0c __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 12
5 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff93b9782d _CFXNotificationPost + 2893
6 Foundation 0x00007fff905277ba -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 68
7 AppKit 0x00007fff96fb1cde -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 440
8 AppKit 0x00007fff96fb17f3 -[NSApplication run] + 128
9 AppKit 0x00007fff96f9c783 NSApplicationMain + 940
10 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff8f5b55fd start + 1
20/08/2014 15:08:23.622 Screen Sharing[1422]: *** -[NSLock lock]: deadlock (<NSLock: 0x6000000ca330> '(null)')
20/08/2014 15:08:23.622 Screen Sharing[1422]: *** Break on _NSLockError() to debug.
I can ssh to the machine fine, just not screen share (VNC).
Any help to fix allowing VNC to the machine would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
KeithFurther,
I have run a port scan and confirmed that port 5900 is open.
When using COTVNC it sort of sits there trying to connect but doesn't show the screen. If whilst it is trying I switch off Remote Management then COTVNC instantly throws up the error that screen sharing is not enabled.
Thus I am deducing that the actual VNC server of the os is goosed. -
Screen Sharing and WindowServer processes using 35-45% of CPU!!
I have recently relocated and reconfigured my Apple network and computers in the house :1) MacBook Air dual display MBA with 20" cinema screen in the office, and 2) and Mac Mini connected to a large LCD TV in the living room.
The plan now is to use the MBA as a primary computer and connect via wireless screen sharing to the MM so that I can monitor that system, run more intensive apps, watch EyeTV, file server tasks, etc.
But now this has increased CPU and fan activity on the MBA beyond what I would expect. The activity monitor indicates that the Screen Sharing and WindowServer processes are using combined between 35-45% of the CPU (screen share process is a constant 25%!!).
This is not good, and I wonder if it will be fixed in a future release. Any ideas or suggestions on how to limit the impact of screen sharing on CPU?It seems to be running better with system update, and use of a faster computer (now using the higher end mac book air)
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Screen Sharing and VPN functionality with ARD
Can somebody with ARD tell me if the following setup is going to work? There's no demo version so I can't tell if it's going to be worth 300 dollars.
I have a number of local machines in a network and a couple external machines in other parts of the state that VPN in to the network. I want to be able to have a local machine that can screen share w/ voice reliably with these guys.
"Reliably" being the key. iChat screen sharing and VNC alternatives do not work reliably at all. They crash, they are slow, they sometimes disconnect video and keep the audio. Or some days they work perfectly, but that's few and far between. Zero-conf services like MacHelpMate work just fine, but I'm reluctant to pay 600 a year for something like this.
Is ARD going to be able to be able to fix this problem for me, or am I really just going to end up with more of the same issues?ARD uses VNC for observation and control, so if you're having problems with iChat screen sharing and with VNC clients, I would not expect that ARD would be any better. My suspicion is that your network and/or VPN are cutting things off, since most people have found iChat sharing and VNC to be pretty reliable, but without being able to perform reliability tests on your network to VPN clients, I can't say for sure.
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Screen Sharing and video chats don't work
I've been searching this forum for awhile and I haven't found a concrete answer to my problem, so if this question has been answered please excuse me. Ok, So here's my situation am running iChat on Mac OS 10.5.1. Whenever I am using my laptop at my school on the network their, I am able to use both screen sharing and video chat. But when I am at home, I am unable to use either one. It begins to try to start the session, but then i receive a message that tells me that a connection could not be established. I know that I have internet access, but I don't know what could be wrong with it.
After investing far to long in looking at this exact issue on my end, reading the seemingly endless threads on the exact same error, trying all the various tweeks and QT settings, bandwidth limit settings, etc etc. proposed here, I have now solved this problem, and the none of the above were part of the solution.
I have perhaps one of the the most common routers on the market, Linksys WRT54GL.
In a totally unrelated network problem (a printing issue), Linksys tech support advised me to reset my router. There is a small button on the bottom. I depressed it for 30 seconds. Rebooted everything and my printer miraculously worked. Yea, I had to reenter my WAP passkey, router admin password etc., but that took 2 secs. So, what does this have to do with iChat?.... The very next time I tried iChat video and turned on and enabled my camera, the recipient immedialty saw me. No connection error.
Problem solved, for me art least. Not sure if anyone has tried this, but makes sooooo much more sense than the other unApple like suggestions I previous tried. Hope this helps. -
I have 2 iMacs running 10.10.1 not on the same LAN. Under Mavericks both screen sharing and file sharing worked fine on both computers
Since the upgrade to yosemite, i can access file and screen sharing on one computer but only file sharing on the other.
Both computers have back to my mac activated. Since screen sharing works fine on one computer, I must assume a setting somewhere is incorrect
Thanks
JeffScreensharing doesn't require a 'bonjour advertisement'. The advertisement causes other Macs to add it to the sidebar - but that is just to help cut out manual config.
You could try working out the IP address of the Mac see if Screensharing works that way. Find that in Network Prefernces for the interface that is on the same local network.
Insert the following into Safari…
vnc://YOUR-IP-OF-REMOTE-MAC
That will open the Screensharing app (which is buried in the System folder) and attempt to open the IP of the machine in question. If that works you know sharing is OK but mDNS a.k.a bonjour is failing somewhere. If that fails double check the local IP & retest. It indicates screensharing itself is failing etc.
You can also try the computer names like 'Macbook.local' instead of the IP address. -
Screen sharing and file sharing not working on LAN
This is not a Mavericks specific problem since it existed before I upgraded to Mavericks. I have a LAN that consists of 3 MBPs and 1 MacPro.
Local screen sharing and file sharing works fine on all of these computers except for one MBP. From this MBP I am able to connect to all of the other computers for screen sharing and file sharing. But I can't connect to this particular MBP for screen sharing or file sharing from any of the other Macs.
This MBP shows up in the left hand side column under "Shared" on all the other computers. But I am unable to make a connection from any computer to the problematic MBP. I get the message, "There was a problem connecting to the server "xxxxxxxx". The server may not exist or is unavailable at this time".
I have tried toggling off and on screen sharing and file sharing with no effect. One probably pertinent strange thing that I notice is that under the Screen Sharing set up the green button next to "Screen Sharing:On" is green. But the message under it states:
"Other users can access your computer's screen
at vnc://johnmacbookproretina/ or by looking for “John MacBook Pro” in the Finder sidebar."
The problem is that my computer name is "John MacBook Pro" and the LocalHostName is "JohnMBPr.local". I believe that at some point in the past the computer name and/or LocalHostName was "johnmacbookproretina".
Similiarly, under File Sharing I am informed:
"Other users can access shared folders on this computer, and administrators all volumes, at “afp://johnmacbookproretina” or “smb://johnmacbookproretina”."
I would appreciate any help I could get to resolve this perplexing issue. Thanks.
JohnI've finally been able to solve my own problem.
File sharing and screen sharing on the problematic MBP was being blocked by firewall rules that had been set up several weeks ago when I had installed a trial version of DoorStop X firewall software. I had previously trashed the app when the 30 day trial ended. I did not realize that the software had left a set of firewall rules in the Library/StartupItems folder. Among other things, the rules were set to deny access to the computer on the ports used for file sharing and screen sharing. Once I trashed the DoorStopStartup folder in the StartUpItems folder all the connection problems resolved with a computer restart. -
Screen sharing and remote management no longer working after some uptime
Server is withoiut monitor.
Users need to login via screen sharing from time to time.
"Enable screen sharing and remote management" is ticked in Server.app everything is working fine (for days, weeks).
ARD reports "Screen Sharing Available", so remote management is not running how it should.
Screen Sharing.app is "Connecting…" forever.
Kickstarting ARD (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2370) does not help.
Restart fixes it.
Is there a workaround (over ssh) or a fix?seduc wrote:
Do you know if
fdesetup authrestart
works then too?
Off-hand, no. I don't. See this posting, or as would be typical in any case, try it? -
Screen sharing and ARD windows to other computers are invisible!
Hi
I have been using screen sharing and or ARD with no problem, for some odd reason today when i went to control a iMac in my network, the window opens but is not there, like i hit command W and i noticed it closed windows on the iMac i can not see the screen at all.
Please adviseahhh, thanks you did it!
forgot to restart after system update!
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Screen Sharing and Remote Login suddenly stopped working
I have had Screen Sharing and Remote Login turned on on my iMac for several weeks and they have been working fine up until now. I have been accessing the computer via VNC programs and command-line ssh logins from other computers on the same local network. When I tried to connect today, i was given the following error message.
ssh: connect to host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22: No route to host
I have all of the required settings turned on in System preferences and there are no firewalls or router settings blocking it. I connected the two computers together via ethernet cable and the error message still occurred.
I can ssh from the machine to 127.0.0.1, so the ssh server is running. I can ssh to other locations from the laptop i am attempting to connect with, so that's not the problem either. I just spent an hour on the phone with the apple tech support line and they couldn't figure anything out either. Can anybody figure something out?have you tried the obvious - restarting the computers involved and the router?
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Screen Sharing and Remote Management
Is there a way in 10.6 to make both Screen Sharing and Remote Management run at the same time?
In the past (10.5), you could convince Mac OS to run both Screen Sharing and Remote Management to run simultaneously. I say "convince" because you could not enable them both through System Preferences. You could turn one on, then use Terminal to enable the other. This worked great for me, because I needed remote management for the machines I managed, and the users need screen sharing to work from home.
However, the work-around for 10.5 no longer seems to work for 10.6. Has any one gotten this to work yet for 10.6? Thanks!I figured this out. First enable Remote Management via System Preferences. Then create /private/etc/ScreenSharing.launchd with 'enabled' as it's contents.
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